Talent Acquisition Specialist - Volume Hiring | 11-Month Contract

Talent Acquisition Specialist - Volume Hiring | 11-Month Contract

Location: Bangalore | Mumbai | Noida

Employment Type: Fixed-term contract (11 months)

About Pine Labs:

Pine Labs is an Indian fintech company founded in 1998 that builds payment and merchant commerce platforms, including Android-based POS systems and digital checkout solutions used by hundreds of thousands of retailers across India and Southeast Asia. It offers integrated services like payment acceptance (cards, UPI, wallets), merchant financing, loyalty programs, and gift-card platforms. Pine Labs continues to grow with technology-led solutions that simplify digital payments and commerce for merchants and brands.

1. Role Overview

The Recruiter Volume Hiring role is a fixed-term position responsible for independently driving end-to-end recruitment for high-volume positions, ensuring speed, quality, and data discipline at scale.

This role requires strong execution ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to manage multiple requisitions simultaneously without compromising stakeholder confidence or hiring outcomes.

The incumbent will operate as a hands-on hiring partner, running the recruitment engine efficiently while maintaining accuracy, structure, and accountability across the hiring lifecycle.

2. Business Context

As hiring volumes scale and timelines tighten, the business requires recruiters who can manage complexity without chaos.

This contractual role supports near-to-medium term workforce scaling by ensuring that hiring plans convert into actual joiners through disciplined execution and proactive pipeline management.

The focus is on delivering predictable, data-backed hiring outcomes while enabling stakeholders to make informed decisions at speed.

3. Key Outcomes & Impact

• High-volume requisitions are closed within agreed timelines without compromising hiring quality.
• Hiring pipelines remain active, healthy, and continuously refreshed, reducing last-minute dependencies.
• Offers consistently translate into confirmed joiners with minimal dropouts.
• Recruitment data across systems is accurate, complete, and decision-ready for stakeholders.

4. Key Responsibilities

• Own the complete recruitment lifecycle for volume roles, from intake through sourcing, screening, interviews, offers, and joining.
• Manage multiple concurrent requisitions while maintaining quality benchmarks and turnaround times.
• Build and sustain robust sourcing pipelines using job portals, referrals, social sourcing, and creative sourcing approaches.
• Ensure availability of backup candidates for critical and time-sensitive roles.
• Partner closely with hiring stakeholders, providing transparent updates on pipeline health, risks, and timelines.
• Use data and metrics to set expectations and push back constructively when requirements are misaligned with market realities.
• Maintain high standards of data hygiene across ATS and recruitment trackers, ensuring accurate reporting of hiring metrics.

5. Capabilities & Competencies

Core Capabilities

• End-to-end recruitment execution for high-volume roles
• Stakeholder communication and expectation management
• Data accuracy, tracking, and reporting discipline
• Prioritisation and multitasking in fast-paced environments

Additional Strengths (Preferred)

• Digital-first mindset with openness to AI-driven recruiting tools
• Ability to streamline workflows and reduce manual effort through automation
• Structured problem-solving under hiring pressure

6. Experience & Qualifications

• 24 years of experience in volume or high-scale recruitment roles (preferred).
• Demonstrated understanding of end-to-end recruitment processes.
• Strong working knowledge of Excel for data handling and reporting (filters, lookups, pivot tables, basic dashboards).
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders and rapidly changing hiring needs.
• Comfort operating in target-driven, deadline-oriented environments.

7. What Will Help You Succeed in This Role

• A strong sense of ownership, with the ability to independently drive hiring outcomes end to end.
• Comfort using data to guide decisions, challenge assumptions, and manage expectations.
• Ability to balance speed with structure, especially during peak hiring periods.
• Curiosity and willingness to experiment with AI, automation, and improved hiring practices.

8. Growth & Exposure

This role provides hands-on exposure to high-impact, large-scale hiring during a defined engagement period.

The incumbent will build strong expertise in volume recruitment, data-driven hiring, and process execution, gaining experience that is transferable to senior recruiter or specialist roles.

Exposure to evolving hiring tools, workflows, and stakeholder environments will support continuous professional development.